Improving teacher recruitment and retention: The importance of workload and pupil behaviour

Educational Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 247-265

  Barmby, Patrick ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Shortage subjects; Teacher recruitment; Teacher retention; Telephone survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750310845     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131880600732314     Document Type: Review

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